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Science Daily-Jan. 21, 2016

Led by Chai and Denise Klein, researchers at McGill University explored whether differences in resting-state connectivity relate to performance ...

Is your French far from 'bien'? Blame your brain! Learning a second ...

Daily Mail-Jan. 19, 2016

Now researchers at McGill University in Montreal have explored whether ... Xiaoqian Chai and Denise Klein scanned the brains of 15 adult ...

2015: Based on our Nature Communications Publication

Le cerveau est influencé par la première langue apprise Top Santé

First language wires brain for later language-learning Medical News Today

First language wires brain for later language-learning Newswise

First language wires brain for later language-learning EurekAlert!

First language wires brain for later language-learning Science Daily

Language learning - education week Education Week

The first language you're exposed to leaves a lasting impression on the brain Medical Daily

Les sonorités de la première langue entendue laissent des traces dans le cerveau AlphaGalileo

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/first-language-wires-brain-later-language-learning-257068

https://www.natureasia.com/en/phys-sci/research/10358

www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/12/07/hardwiring-languages-in-the-brain/

www.annualreviews.org › ... › List of Issues › Volume 66, 2015

mobile.the-scientist.com/article/44689/ts-picks-december-3-2015

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/113097/20151206/forgotten-first-language-influences-how-brain-processes-sounds.htm

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2015: Based on our Conference on Bilingualism and the Brain:

The Gazette, 27/05/2015 RESEARCHERS TO ADDRESS LINGERING MYTHS ABOUT IMPACT OF BILINGUALISM The Gazette

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/researchers-to-address-lingering-myths-about-impact-of-bilingualism

Interview Radio-Canada International 27/05/2015http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/05/27/bilingual-brain-symposium-montreal-neurological-institute/

2015: Based on our work on Bilingualism and the Brain:

Filming for weekly science program Le Code Chastenay (Télé-Québec, TV5 World).

http://lecodechastenay.telequebec.tv/ Filming on 21/08/2015.

Interview for article on language development in young children with Julie Gould, freelance science writer and Naturejobs editor at Nature (Nature publishing group), London. email: julie.gould [at] nature.com (julie[dot]gould[at]nature[dot]com) 06/08/2015.

2014: Based on our study published in PNAS in 2014:

Quirks and Quarks http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/2014/11/22/2014-11-22-2/ (featuring Denise Klein)

Canadian Association for Neuroscience http://can-acn.org/finding-lost-languages-in-the-brain (Featuring Denise Klein)

Unconscious languages: Forgotten mother tongues leave traces in the brain (featuring Lara Pierce) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/unconscious-languages-forgotten-mother-tongues-leave-traces-in-the-brain-9869147.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/forgotten-languages-leave-mark-brain-study-article-1.2015296

Le cerveau garde la mémoire des langues entendues dans les premiers mois de la vie (featuring Lara Pierce) http://www.slate.fr/story/94833/cerveau-memoire-langues-entendues-nourrissons

The Brain Remembers Forgotten Language
Saturday, November 22, 2014 | Categories:
The brains of infants, who were adopted and raised without exposure to their birth language, still recognize it. Our brains know languages learned early, even if we don't remember them. That's the conclusion of research by a team from McGill University, including Dr. Denise Klein, a neuroscientist with McGill University's Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music, and the Montreal Neurological Institute. She and her colleagues looked at children who had been adopted from China in their first couple of years of life, but not exposed to Chinese language after that. When the researchers played tonal syllables from Chinese to these children, areas in their brains associated with decoding language sounds became active, even though they had no memory or awareness of knowing Chinese at all. This was in stark contrast to children who'd never encountered Chinese at all.

Related Links

·Paper in PNAS

·McGill University release

·Time magazine article (featuring Klein)

·http://time.com/3593064/an-infants-brain-maps-language-from-birth-study-says/

·CBC News story

2013: Based on our study published in Brain and Language

Global TV News. “Can bilingualism make you smarter?” Interview with Denise Klein about her study looking at language acquisition and changes to the brain. http://globalnews.ca/video/834013/can-bilingualism-make-you-smarter

Learning a new language alters brain development PRESS RELEASE (Aug 21.2013)

Journal du Quebec L’apprentissage d’une nouvelle langue modifie le développement du cerveau http://www.journaldequebec.com/2013/08/29/lapprentissage-dune-nouvelle-langue-modifie-le-developpement-du-cerveau

Le Journal de Montréal http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2013/08/29/lapprentissage-dune-nouvelle-langue-modifie-le-developpement-du-cerveau

McGill Reporter. http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2013/08/learning-a-new-language-alters-brain-development/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130829124351.htm
http://www.sciencecodex.com/learning_a_new_language_alters_brain_development-118357
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-language-brain.html

http://scienceblog.com/65983/learning-a-new-language-alters-brain-development/#MryS05TwsmJdWKJA.99

http://health.india.com/news/learning-a-new-language-during-childhood-alters-your-brain/

http://www.health.am/ab/more/new-language-alters-brain-development/

http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2013/08/learning-new-language-alters-brain-development

http://www.health24.com/Mental-Health/Brain/News/Language-learning-stimulates-brain-growth-20130830

http://www.psypost.org/2013/08/learning-a-new-language-alters-brain-development-19935

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/learning-new-language-alters-brain-development-113083000549_1.html